Polishing composition.



UNITED. TATES an to.

JONAS W. AYLSWORTH, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HALOGEN PRODUCTS COMPANY, OF GLEN RIDGE, NEW JERSEY, A. CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

POLISHING COMPOSITION.

1,090,440. Specification of Letters Patent.

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' dent of East Orange, in the county of Essex,

State of New. Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Polishing Composition, of which the following is a description.

My invention relates to an improvedpolishing composition for wood floors, shoes, leather, furniture, etc., and my object is to provide an improved composition of this character having certain novel and useful properties.

This composition comprises one or more of the higher halogen substitution products of naphthalene, compounded. with a hard, amorphousresin and a volatile solvent which will retain both ingredients in solution or in the form of paste. The solvent is preferably one which is non-inflammable, and also referably composed of acetylene-tetra-chlorid or equivalent slowly-volatile solvent orthe same in mixture with a rapid drying solvent, such, for example, as tri-chloro-ethylene, the mixed solvent being betteradapted for certain uses. The hard amorphous resin referred 'to is preferably a permanently fusible phenolic condensation product, the resin which I consider best adapted to the desired purpose being a condensation productof a cresol and formaldehyde, having a melting point of 100 C. or higher. Suitable. dyes or pigments may be added 'as desired for polishes of different colors. Compositions such as described have the novel property of being non-inflammable, and at the same time form a fine water-proofpolish. I

, The composition may be described as having properties intermediate between those of a varnish and a wax.

The non-inflammable nature of the porn position serves In a measure to retard 1gn1- tion of surfaces to which it is applied. It'- tetra-chloro-naphtha ene and penta-cbloronaphthalene. 400 to 550 parts of a fusible phenolic condensation product of a cresol and formaldehyde, having a melting point PatentedMarni'Y, rare.

Application filed May 12, 1913. Serial No. 767,153.

of 100 C. or higher. Ortho-cresol resin, which is permanently fusible, that is, which is not transformed into an infusible condensation product by heating to from 100 C. to 200 C.,'is preferred. 550 to 650 parts of acetylene-tetra-chlorid or equivalent slowly volatile solvent. 800 to 1200 parts of a rapid drying solvent, such as di-chloro-ethylene, tri-chloro-ethylene, benzol, or a mixture of the same. Suitable dyes may be added when desired.

The following is given as an example of suitable proportions for a composition intended to form a paste for polishing leather shoes, etc.:

(2) 750 parts by weight solid chloro-naph- .thalene, as in Example 1. 200 to 100 parts ortho-cresol resin, having a melting point of over 100 C. 200 to 400 parts of acetylene tetra-chlorid. 300 to 600'parts of tri-chloroethylene. I

In forming the above paste composition the solid ingredients may be dissolved in the solvent by the aid of heat until all of the same have gone into solution, after which the liquid is cooled. Part of the composition will now segregate as granules or crystals. To reduce the .mass to a uniform paste it is now ground in a suitable pamt mill, -wherein it 1s converted to a uniform greasy paste, of Vaseline-like texture. \Suitable dyes or pigments may be added before the grin g operation. The. paste just described, (Example 2) may be applied to' shoes or the like, and

rubbed to a fine gloss as soon as the rapiddrying solvent has dried. The polish thus formed will .be hard and not at all sticky, and will be water-prpof, and harmless to leather articles.

The fluid polish, Example No. 1, does not require rubbing, but forms a highly polished surface as soon as it dries, without rubbmg.

Thecompositions described herein are also suitable for wood-fillers.

' Having now described my invention what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is as follows 1. As a new article of manufacture, a olish composition comprising a higher halogen substitution product of naphthalene, a hard amorphorous resin and a volatile solvent for the said product and resin, substantially as described. 2. As a new article of manufacture, a

' polish composition comprising a higher alogen substitution product of naphtha- 10110, a permanently fusible, soluble phenolic resin and a volatile solvent for the said product and resin, substantially as describe 3; As a new article of manufacture, a polish composition comprising a higher alogen substitution product of naphthalene, a permanently fusible,soluble henolic resin and a solvent for the said r0 not and 5. As a new article of manufacture, a,

polish composition comprising a higher solid chloro-naphthalene, a permanently fusible, soluble, cresol resin having a melt- 35 ing point of at least 100 C. acetylene-tetrachlorid and a rapid-drying solvent, substantially as described.

6. As a new article of manufacture, a

polish com osition comprising a higher solid chloro-nap thalene, a permanently fusible, soluble, cresol resin and acetylene-tetrachlorid, substantiall as described.

7. As a new artlcle of manufacture, a.

polish composition comprising a higher solid chloro-naphthalene, a permanently fusible, soluble, ,cresol resin having a melting point of at least 100 C., acetylene-tetra-chlorid and tri-chloro-ethylene, substantially as de- 1 scribed.

8. As a new article of manufacture, a noninflammable composition adapted to form a water-proof polish for wood and leather, comprising a higher halogen substitution product of naphthalene compounded with a.

ard amorphous permanently fusible phenolic resin and a volatile non-mflammab'le solvent in which said substitution product sion, substantially as described.

and resin are retained in solution or suspen- IIhis specification signed and witnessed this 9th day of May 1913.

JQNAS W. AYLSWORTI-L Witnesses:

Dnnos HOLDEN, MARY J. LAInLAw. 

